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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

Dorothy Parker
Book, Reading, Beer
Quoted in The AlgonquinWits, ed. Robert E. Drennan (1968)

... if this world were anything near what it should be there would be no more need of a Book Week than there would be a of a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Dorothy Parker
Children, Book, Reading
Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.

Dorothy Parker
Funny, Book, Reading
Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant billiard-maker? Or a private librarian? Or a lady car-washer? Because if you do, I should appreciate your giving me a trial at the job. Any minute now, I am going to become one of the Great Unemployed. I am about to leave literature flat on its face. I don’t want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

Dorothy Parker
Jobs, Book, Reading
Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off reading for years. Look at the swing La Rouchefoucauld took at it. He said that if nobody had ever learned to read, very few people would be in love. Good for you, La Rouchefoucauld; nice going, boy. I wish I’d never learned to read.

Dorothy Parker
Nice, Reading, Boys

I don't want to review books any more. It cuts in too much on my reading.

Dorothy Parker
Book, Reading, Cutting
Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

Nevil Shute's On the Beach is no Christmas carol, but it seems to me a remarkably fine novel, one which I read, in the peculiarly repulsive phrase, with my eyes glued to the page.

Dorothy Parker
Beach, Reading, Eye

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